The dissertation explores the role of space in the production and perception of meaning in the cultural performance genre of festival, using a case-study approach centered on the production of the 2005 Lotus World Music ...

American folklorists have long preserved their research materials in repositories dedicated to this purpose. The motivations for saving these items and the methods of doing so have changed over time, but the practice of ...

At its core, dub poetry involves the process of creating and presenting a fusion of words and sounds (or "word-sounds") with musical and dramatic components. The genre has deep roots in the long-standing oral, musical, and ...

Dub poetry, or reggae poetry, developed in the 1970s as a synthesis of oral, musical, and
dramatic traditions practiced in Jamaica. Scholars have focused attention on the published
texts and the public performances, the ...

In an area dominated by large-farm cotton agriculture, a vernacular small-farm quilt culture was established in the Tennessee Delta by the early 1900s. Its improvisation-friendly methods allowed makers to make design ...

How are transnational communities experienced? What types of social interactions constitute transnational communities? Specifically, can a sense of transnational community be expressed and experienced through participation ...

Looking at six performances (including tourist `museums' and walking tours) for the October influx of tourists to Salem, Massachusetts, this work outlines the way each performance encodes within a structural perspective ...